Hadi al-Amiri

Hadi al-Amiri (1954-) was the Minister for Transport of Iraq from 21 December 2010 to 2014 and President of the Badr Organization from 16 July 2009.

Biography
Hadi al-Amiri was born in 1954 in Diyala to a family of Shi'ite Muslim Arabs. During the Iran-Iraq War, al-Amiri joined the Badr Organization in alliance with Iran against Ba'athist Iraq, starting close cooperation with the Iranian government. On 16 July 2009, he became President of the Badr Organization and had close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps during the Iraq War. He called for the federation of Shi'ite lands in southern Iraq independent of Sunni northern Iraq as well. al-Amiri led the Badr Organization during the 2014 Iraqi Civil War in alliance with the Iraqi government against the Islamic State and the Salafist groups that took over northern Iraq, while he also assisted Iran in delivering airborne weapons shipments to the Syrian Arab Republic during the Syrian Civil War.